Memory is a huge side effect of medication. Although I still have problems, memory problems, with things like books, cinema, this sort of thing – if somebody asks me what I saw a week ago at the cinema I couldn’t tell them – but it’s nothing, not nearly as bad as it was. I always make a list, every day, of things I’ve got to do, even if they are mundane things like washing. All sorts of things I will put on a list, and if I need to take things somewhere, I put it in the diary – for example, next week it’s my mother’s 93rd birthday, and we’re having a party at my sister’s. So, I’ve put that I’m going, and then I’ve got “(carrot cake)” because that’s what I’m doing for her birthday cake, which she loves. And I put things by the front door when I think about. And I always do things when I think about them, because I know in ten minutes’ time I will have forgotten.
